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33. Silently and Very Fast by Catherynne Valente - This is from the Palimpsest era as far as I can tell. The part where Catherynne was still writing prose poetry but there were actual plots emerging. So as much as I might have turned away from the prose poetry stories that Catherynne wrote at the beginning of her career (and which I actually bought for SHe Nailed a Stake Through His Head) I can still enjoy this one because it does have something going on beyond the pretty words. Basically it's a weird romance between an AI and a series of family members that is reminiscent of Bicentennial Man but with less Robin Williams. It's quite beautiful but also heartbreaking.
34. Scooby Apocalypse, vol 2 by Keith Giffen and J.M. DeMatteis - This reminds me of the ways that Archie comics decided to turn everyone into a realistic type character for the zombie stories. They didn't necessarily work because the characters were changed with Jughead being a bitter asshole. The TV show pulled back a little and the comics brought back versions of Archie and Jughead that actually kind of fit. Anyhow most of the characters are about the same except for Shaggy. Shaggy is a hipster. Shaggy is pretty normal and you know that he's working at a coffeehouse and listening to the hippest bands. Oddly enough Jughead was the character most violently fucked over in this transition to realism. I guess these comics can't deal with the comic relief. The rest are mostly the same with Velma as the maker of the apocalypse with nano technology that turns everyone into monsters. It's got some cool scenes like future Velma as a dominatrix running the show and Scrappy Doo killing puppies to save them from his fate.
35. Classics of Western Literature Bloom County 1986-1989 by Berke Breathed - Unlike Pogo this mostly holds up. Not all the jokes are funny. Trump possessing Bill the Cat is unwelcome because fuck Trump. There's also a cartoon where the one character buys Ebony and the other character asks if they have Ivory - the joke being that Ebony is a racist magazine - as if racism would be totally over without magazines like ebony and White Supremacy isn't a thing. But for the most part it's a pleasant trip into 1980s nostalgia if you want to be nostalgic for that shitty decade.
34. Scooby Apocalypse, vol 2 by Keith Giffen and J.M. DeMatteis - This reminds me of the ways that Archie comics decided to turn everyone into a realistic type character for the zombie stories. They didn't necessarily work because the characters were changed with Jughead being a bitter asshole. The TV show pulled back a little and the comics brought back versions of Archie and Jughead that actually kind of fit. Anyhow most of the characters are about the same except for Shaggy. Shaggy is a hipster. Shaggy is pretty normal and you know that he's working at a coffeehouse and listening to the hippest bands. Oddly enough Jughead was the character most violently fucked over in this transition to realism. I guess these comics can't deal with the comic relief. The rest are mostly the same with Velma as the maker of the apocalypse with nano technology that turns everyone into monsters. It's got some cool scenes like future Velma as a dominatrix running the show and Scrappy Doo killing puppies to save them from his fate.
35. Classics of Western Literature Bloom County 1986-1989 by Berke Breathed - Unlike Pogo this mostly holds up. Not all the jokes are funny. Trump possessing Bill the Cat is unwelcome because fuck Trump. There's also a cartoon where the one character buys Ebony and the other character asks if they have Ivory - the joke being that Ebony is a racist magazine - as if racism would be totally over without magazines like ebony and White Supremacy isn't a thing. But for the most part it's a pleasant trip into 1980s nostalgia if you want to be nostalgic for that shitty decade.
